NAME

WordNet::Tools - Some tools for use with WordNet.

SYNOPSIS

  use WordNet::QueryData;

  use WordNet::Tools;

  my $wn = WordNet::QueryData->new;

  my $wntools = WordNet::Tools->new($wn);

  my $wnHashCode = $wntools->hashCode();

  my $newstring = $wntools->compoundify("find compound words like new york city in this text");

DESCRIPTION

This module provides some tools for use with WordNet. For example, the 'compoundify' method detects compound words (as found in WordNet) in a text string and it combines these words into single tokens using underscore separators. Another tool in this module generates a unique hash code corresponding to a WordNet distribution. This hash code is meant to replace the "version" information in WordNet, which is no longer reliable.

METHODS

The following methods are defined:

WordNet::Tools->new($wn)

This is a constructor for this class (and creates a new object of this class). It requires a WordNet::QueryData object as a parameter.

Parameters: $wn -- a WordNet::QueryData object.

Returns: a new WordNet::Tools object.

$wntools->compoundify($string)

This is method identifies all compound words occurring in the given input string. Compound words are multi-word tokens appearing in WordNet.

Parameters: $string -- an input text string.

Returns: a string with compound words identified.

$wntools->hashCode()

This is method returns a unique identifier representing a specific distribution of WordNet.

Parameters: none.

Returns: a unique identifier (string).

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

perl(1)

WordNet::QueryData(3)

AUTHORS

Ted Pedersen, tpederse at d.umn.edu

Siddharth Patwardhan, sidd at cs.utah.edu

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Ted Pedersen and Siddharth Patwardhan

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.